Sat nav mount - advice needed

Mrs. M. and I have a sat nav each, mine is a Tom Tom, hers is a Garmin. Mine drops off the window within about 5 miles of leaving home, it's always been rubbish, Mrs. M's is better but is getting on a bit now and is starting to drop off too.
Looking around I see some bean-bag holders for sat navs, has anyone tried them? are they any good? Or is there an alternative better and stronger mount out there we could use?

Mrs. M. and I have a sat nav each, mine is a Tom Tom, hers is a Garmin. Mine drops off the window within about 5 miles of leaving home, it's always been rubbish, Mrs. M's is better but is getting on a bit now and is starting to drop off too.
Looking around I see some bean-bag holders for sat navs, has anyone tried them? are they any good? Or is there an alternative better and stronger mount out there we could use?

I've always used one of the bean bag type ones. It has a mount in it and sits on the dashboard. I got from the Garmin website.
Here it is
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=63953
I find it very useful.

In our camper I've screwed the suction cup direct to the dashboard top and twisted the mount 180 degrees so the SatNav unit drops into it - works fine if you don't mind a couple of small screw holes in your dashboard.

I've just gotten a Breffo Spiderpodium. You can bend the legs round the sat nav and then position it where you like - maybe poke it into the vents or somewhere.
I've got a little CD compartment in my dash and I open it up, pop the satnav with spider in to prop it up and it stays put nicely with the lid of the compartment protecting it from glare.
It's not a cheap gadget and I'm not sure how long it will last, so I avoid reshaping ot too often. It's a bit small for my Navman 5", but it works.

I have one of those, got it from Tescos. It isn't magnetic it relies on friction and its weight to keep it in place. Seems to work well and has done the job with my Tom Tom and my son's other brand (can't recall) satnav. Its called a Navmat (i wonder how they came up with that)! It has also worked in three different models of car so is pretty universal.

Thanks for all the replies.
I went to Tesco today and got a bean-bag type despite it costing rather more than the &pound;1.14p I had put aside for it (it was &pound;19.99!).
Mrs. M. has to use her sat nav tomorrow, so it has been installed in her car, depending on her success with it I'll get one for my car too.

Why would you need 2, surely you both don't need to use a sat nav at the same time? We keep or in the cupboard above the PC (I can see it as I type) and whoever needs it just takes it (in fact the sat nav is in there as well).

Why would you need 2, surely you both don't need to use a sat nav at the same time? We keep or in the cupboard above the PC (I can see it as I type) and whoever needs it just takes it (in fact the sat nav is in there as well).

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We don't need two. A couple of Christmases ago when we needed one, we each bought the other one
So we are used to having our own, plus our son sometimes borrows one and forgets to give it back for a while, you are assuming a rudimentary level of organization that doesn't exist in our house.